Beresti (Pliocene of Romania)

Where: Moldova, Romania (46.2° N, 27.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 27.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Earliest Pliocene, Late Dacian, Gilbert Chron, Zanclean, over 4 million years old.

Environment/lithology:

• In the Dacic Basin, 'a large sedimentary area connecting the central and eastern Paratethys; it is situated between the southern Carpathians in the north and the Balkans in the south.'

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. Radulescu and P.-M. Samson. 2001. Biochronology and evolution of the Early Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene mammalian faunas of Romania. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):285-291 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39622: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 01.06.2004, edited by Lars van den Hoek Ostende

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
"Castor praefiber" = Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Trischizolagus dumitrescuae Radulesco and Samson 1967 rabbit
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpa neagui n. sp.
Talpa neagui n. sp. Radulescu and Samson 1989 mole
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion malustenense hipparionine horse
"Equus" simionescui horse
"Equus" (Hipparion?) simionescui
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae